The Partisans: An Extra Politics Board Game Launches on Kickstarter

The folks over at Extra Credits have been producing entertaining education videos on a variety of topics since 2010. Their latest series, Extra Politics, delved into the similarities of game mechanics and how politics work to further ideological goals. The Partisans: An Extra Politics Board Game brings the concepts discussed in the Extra Politics series to the board game community.

The Partisans, designed by Luke Peterschmidt and published by Fun to 11, is not your typical political game involving political parties or politicians. Instead, ideologies of the people serve as the factions in the game. Players take turns as committee chair and work together to craft bills from amendment cards. Each amendment card indicates whether the amendment advances an idea from a faction or hinders it. Often multiple factions are affected but not always in the same way, and some factions are completely unaffected by the amendment. Factions will need to form coalitions to either pass or defeat a bill. Faction can leverage political action cards or lobbies to tip the vote in their favor. At the end of the game, the factions whose ideas are closest to being matched by the government is the winner.

A retired military veteran, father of five, and an avid wargamer, boardgamer, video gamer, and role play gamer. Now that his world traveling days are over, he spends his days working on training and education policy. In his free time (which is every other minute he is not working on the "Honey, Do" list), he draws his family, friends, and co-workers into the boardgame hobby. He can be readily found on BoardGameGeek.com as "pdzoch".